#mattered

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. ↗

— Larry Page

#around #ask #been #doing #driven

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#almost #completely #could #feel #go

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bad #began #booming #economy #expecting

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#did #game #hope #i #love

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#acting #around #became #came #cared

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning. ↗

— Maya Lin

#learning #life #mattered #money #only

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#except #mattered #mind #nothing #our